Praise God my brothers and sisters in Christ!
Here am back with another message which I hope will minister to someone because God has put it on my heart for the reason and I know his word comes for the purpose to some one. I am sharing my today’s message titled “IT IS NOT YOUR POWER THAT WILL LEAD YOU TO YOUR SUCCESS”.
You may be asking yourself what I mean by this title, but I request you to take time and read on this message and by the time you finish it you will understand what I mean, and if you don’t, feel free to ask.
One time I was asking myself why some people fight hard and struggle a lot, but do not succeed, and some do not struggle much or work hard but succeed. This spent some days in my thoughts and minds trying to look for the answer, so one time I went in my praying time and God gave me this message. That it is not someone’s power, education, hard working, big family, many relatives or friends that will help him/her to succeed, but only the belief and trust that that person has in the lord. And on this I remembered some people that I have seen struggling and trying hard, but not succeeding and I also remembered some people who did not hardly fight but succeeded. So this confirmed to me that it is not someone’s power or knowledge that helps to succeed.
Everybody on this earth wants to be strong, well known, succeed in life, and be rich and this has made many people mad, fighting each other to gain honor. That’s where we see nations fighting, presidents fighting, families fighting and even churches fighting. The reason is because they want to succeed in life, but don’t know how to do so and so they try according to their knowledge.
I don’t like to speak my own words basing nowhere, but like to base on the word of God so we are going to see one well known young man that succeeded and this man is none other than David. We are reading from the book of 1 Samuel 17. (I can’t type the all chapter here because the message will be too long but you can read on the chapter yourself.)
When we are reading in this chapter, we see that these people of two groups were in the war and both of them wanted to succeed in their battle and these people were all having soldiers well tried to fight. And in the two groups, there is one group (Philistines) that was seen as stronger than the other and the other group (Israelites) was seen to be a bit weak at first.
From verse 4-10 shows how the first group had a champion, strong and hard working man and well trained to fight, and himself speaking that he is strong enough to kill and destroy. And on verse 11 we see that the second side was scared and terrified because no one among them looked like the other champion. Now it means that in their hearts they were already defeated, because they didn’t know how to succeed though they wanted. This is also to some people in this world. They are defeated before starting the battle, but thanks to God that there is some that know what to do and how to succeed.
On which side are you?
When we continue reading we see that from 12-15 shows the family with some guys old enough and seemed trained to fight going with the army, but one (David) seemed weak and useless, left behind because he was not strong enough to fight, and not well known as a fighter. This happened on that time and till now it is still happening. We see with our usual eyes and see some people as useless, but God is seeing them as bold and strong enough to fight, and he believes in them more than these we choose on our own.
Continue reading, verse 16 shows that the strong side (Philistines) continued challenging the weak seemed side (Israelites) for some good long time for many days more than a month because none of these people (groups) knew how to succeed.
Then from verse 17-21 shows the other young man (David) that was seen as useless on the battle is now getting an opportunity of coming to see what was going on. This was God’s plan to show his power to the Philistines, that he is the Lord God, and to the Israelites that he needed them to trust him.
And from 22-24 shows the young man (David) reaching the battle ground and shows the champion keep intimidating the Israelites and shows Israelites scared of the strong man, yet they came knowing themselves as well trained too.
From verse 25-29 shows the young boy coming near some people on the battle ground and he tried to ask what was taking place. But when his brother heard him he was burned up with anger, because he knew that this one was to die in the battle because he was too young to fight. He talked to him badly, but this boy was humble and knew that his coming there was God’s plan.
My brother and sister I want to encourage you never to fight for yourself when you left out, but knowing the one you believe that is able.
Read on verse 32, the one seemed weak, useless and too young to fight is now encouraging the commander not to loose heart and not to encouraging him only, but promising to fight the battle and win. But still on 33 shows the commander is despising this young man because he knew that they are to overcome the battle on their own and so he saw this man was not old to fight, and not trained to fight.
Verses 34-37 shows the young man explaining how God used him to fight animals and showing that the same God can help him to overcome this battle. Here shows that David knew that his killing the other animals was not by his power on his own, but was God that used to help him. So he believed that the same God will help him again, not his own power to help him.
From 38-44 shows the young man now accepted to fight and they dressed him the battle garments, but he could not fit them because he was not used of them. So he refused them and went with miner things compared to the biggest of the battle. And here we continue seeing the champion seemed stronger cursing the young man and intimidating him, but the young man never got scared.
I like 45, 46 and 47 make sure you read on them. They show well that David knew that he was not to succeed on this battle on his own, but he was to overcome because of the Lord and he was to attack in the name of the Lord God.
It is not by the spear or sword that Lord serves, the battle is the Lords. He knew how to succeed and who to help him succeed!
Whom do you think to fight your battle?
48-58 shows how the champion was put to shame by a despised young boy by the help of Father God in heaven. This young man defeated the champion with only a stone. Imagine a stone! It was not a stone that killed this man! … not David that killed the champion!.. but it was the power of God, through David’s faith and his believing in the Lord.
Now I want to tell you that all people despised David, and none of his brothers or fellow Israelites that hoped him to fight and overcome, but he knew that there was some one to help him overcome and fight on his behalf.
I know that there are some battles you are fighting in your ministry, life, family, business and you want to succeed and you have really tried a lot. But let me discourage you that you will not overcome that battle if you continue fighting for yourself, unless you allow God in to fight for you that battle.
And I want to encourage you that the moment you trust him(God) to fight for you, he will fight and overcome the battle, and you won’t remain the same, because from this day David was known to many nations, and till now we are reading on him. But if he tried to fight for himself, we would be reading on him as a loser. Instead, he put his hope and trust in the lord to help him succeed in the battle.
Which battles are you fighting or lay before you? Do you want to overcome? Trust unto the Lord and let him fight it for you for the battle is his.
Do you want to succeed in life? Let him be your number one in everything.
There are some of you who are like David, but denied a chance to reach the battle ground because you are seen to be weak, too young to fight, not trained to fight, and even not used of fight. But I want to encourage you that God is planning for you, and you will one day get a chance to that place may be in the ministry, or anywhere, and the Lord will show himself through you in Jesus name.
Don’t fight for yourself, but let God fight that battle for you. Don’t look at your education, money, relatives or wealth, and see that you can do all things on your own, or look on you power and see that you are powerful enough to overcome everything. It is not your power that will help you overcome.
I encourage you all that the Lord God is a loving father, and he wants to see you winning. The moment you lift your trust in him, you will win all battles laid before you, and you will see God’s power more and more. If you fight or struggle on your own you will struggle for nothing and will be defeated, but if you let him fight for you, he will lead you to success in Jesus name. Can someone there say amen?
A prayer: Father God in heaven, Lord Jesus Christ, I thank you for your love to all of us who believe and trust in you, and I thank you for this opportunity to speak to this person reading this message. I pray Lord that you put this word in our hearts that we may always remember that you are the one to fight for us. And whenever you stand to fight for us, we overcome. Fight for that lady in struggle to keep her family, fight for those parents in struggle for their children and families and fight for those business people struggling for their businesses, and fight for your servants struggling for ministries, Lord. I believe that you are fighting for them and I pray you forgive us where we have not trusted you and help us to keep on trusting you in all corners, because when we trust you, you can not leave us, but will help us succeed in Jesus name. I believe that you are doing this and am praying through Jesus Christ, our Lord and savior, Amen and amen. (You there can say amen too.)
Be blessed my brothers and sisters in all your doing, I remain your brother and friend.
Ev.Evard Kabaali
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